TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mohammad Rashiduzzaman
PY  - 2020
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781433166532
TI  - The Central Legislature in British India, 1921–47
T2  - Parliamentary Experiences Under the Raj
DO  - 10.3726/b15953
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1058035
N2  - The Central Legislature in British India 1921–47: Parliamentary Experiences Under the Raj is an exceptional exposé of Colonial India’s highest legislative body. With its wealth of materials and in-depth description of the former Indian Legislature’s actual working, its political milieu and its institutional development, this book belongs to the larger genre of the British Indian narratives on the constitutional encounters between the rulers and the ruled. This book touches on a critical range of areas essential to our understanding of the British Raj in India. This book adds a significant depth to a neglected quarter of historical knowledge—the chronicle of parliamentary experiences and the representative institution-building in Colonial India. Undeniably, the Central Legislature was the only acknowledged all-India forum where the Indian legislators and the Imperial Executive, time and again, ran into each other. Yet, even at the lowest ebb of the Indian lawmakers’ disillusionment, the two flanks, intermittently, showed a modicum of mutual respect: though limited, the two sides indirectly shared power, went through the motion and contributed to policy-making typically over a strip of non-controversial subjects.
LA  - English
ER  -